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Issue 56 – Comet landing

Apr-May 2014

In this issue of Cosmos Magazine, we look at how a spacecraft will be landed on a comet; man-made earthquakes and fracking; how antibiotics got into our food chain; what the dark matter in our genome does; and hope for the paralysed by jumpstarting the spinal cord. Plus, a gallery on the nanotechnology of butterflies and moths as well as a profile of Andrea Morello, the physicist harnessing spin for quantum computing.